Heartland

markfiend wrote:

sultan2075 wrote:I've experimented with Linux in the past, I just don't need that level of flexibility, or that much tinkering-under-the-hood. I don't have time for it any more.

The tinkering-under-the-hood satisfies my inner geek.

Oh, I know. There's a part of me that still wants to do that, and I do occasionally find myself thinking about Linux. But--no joke, I swear!--one of the nice things about abandoning Windows for the Mac is that I actually have more time to work on the things I need to work on, because I'm not constantly futzing around beneath the hood. It wasn't until I bought my MBP and then switched my wife to a Macbook that I realized how much time I spent fixing her computer and my computers. It's nice not having to do that anymore.

markfiend wrote:The tinkering-under-the-hood satisfies my inner geek.

I've got C for that.

Seriously though, with Linux Mint, I've not needed to do any tinkering under the hood. Not even to get flash video or wifi working. Even Kerry's 12-year-old printer worked "out of the box".

I've ended up playing with Gentoo just so's I have something I can tinker with too.

And yes, Mac is far better than Windows on that score.

mh wrote:

James Blast wrote:<watches quietly from the higher ground>

Shuttit Macboi.

*laughs* Yeah Mr. Blast why was it you don't go onto Myspace anymore?

*smug*

cause it blows

The only social networking I need is right here on good ol' HL

James Blast wrote:cause it blows

years ago, innit ?

True Story. My first day with a Mac (admittedly a few years ago)

<ring ring><ring<ring>
guy: Hello, Apple techncal support, how can I help?
me: I can't eject the frickin CD from the drive
guy: oh, just drag the CD to the Trash bin
me: well, I don't want to trash it, I want to eject it.
guy: well, that's how you do it on a Mac!
me: can't I press the eject button on the drive?
guy: no.
me: why not?
guy: Coz on a Mac, you have to trash it!
me: can I back to MS-DOS now?

(I've since heard that Apple used to receive hundreds of calls on this every day....)

<ring ring><ring<ring>
guy: Hello, Apple techncal support, how can I help?
me: I'm new to the Mac and am trying to use the command line prompt thingy for developers. Every time I press <return> it just goes to the next line, and doesn't enter the command.
guy: you need to press <enter>, nor <return>
me: on the numeric keypad?
guy: yup
me: that's very... unintuitive...
guy: mmm
me: ... and violates about 30 years of computer usage conversions....
guy: mmm

<ring ring><ring<ring>
guy: Hello, Apple techncal support, how can I help?
me: I'm writing a game for the Mac, how do I write straight to the screen display?
guy: oh, just use sprites
me: its a 3D game.
guy: a real game?
me: yes. It has explosions and everything.
guy: really? on the mac?
me: yup
guy: can you send us a copy?
me: no, because I cannot access the friggin screen display.
guy: oh, just access those structures we say don't access the docs.
me: ok then....



User friendliness as its absolute fineness!!

James Blast wrote:cause it blows

Oh, I beg your pardon, I thought on an other thread here you said

James Blast wrote:I have a MySpazz and never touch it because my Mac grinds to an halt whenever I visit

MadameButterfly wrote:

James Blast wrote:cause it blows

Oh, I beg your pardon, I thought on an other thread here you said

James Blast wrote:I have a MySpazz and never touch it because my Mac grinds to an halt whenever I visit

my mac's fine (both of them), but my will to live does.

Quiff Boy wrote:

MadameButterfly wrote:

James Blast wrote:cause it blows

Oh, I beg your pardon, I thought on an other thread here you said

James Blast wrote:I have a MySpazz and never touch it because my Mac grinds to an halt whenever I visit

my mac's fine (both of them), but my will to live does.

now i'm confused! the "but my will to live does"....does what? grind to an halt whenever you visit? or i visit? yeah i know that

what do i know, except my laptop is just fine for all i need.

markfiend wrote:The only social networking I need is right here on good ol' HL

Awww...bless this MOD!

Bless you Mark the Meerkat!

I think MacOS is quite OK and with a little cheating you can install it on common PC hardware (mac computers are basicly common pc's as well - just overpriced IMHO). I prefer to arrange my computer/hardware on my own btw. - never bought a complete computer in my life (except my PDA).

My problem is just that I don't have any problems with my windows machine so there's no reason for me to literally "touch a running system". I don't even feel the need to upgrade to vista or windows 7 because XP is still doing it and there's plenty free tools out the to customize some geeky features (like rocketdock).

DocSommer wrote:I think MacOS is quite OK and with a little cheating you can install it on common PC hardware (mac computers are basicly common pc's as well - just overpriced IMHO). ...

My problem is just that I don't have any problems with my windows machine so there's no reason for me to literally "touch a running system" ...

Absolutely seconded. Slowly I really feel it necessary to upgrade to XP, though ... ...

EvilBastard wrote:Teh Grauniad's Charlie Brooker tells it like it is.

The problem with Charlie Brooker is that he looks like Jeremy Kyle. You just can't recover from that.

MadameButterfly wrote:

James Blast wrote:cause it blows

Oh, I beg your pardon, I thought on an other thread here you said

James Blast wrote:I have a MySpazz and never touch it because my Mac grinds to an halt whenever I visit

To be fair, everything grinds to a halt whwnever you visit MySpace. The real question is why you would want to.

Being645 wrote:
Absolutely seconded. Slowly I really feel it necessary to upgrade to XP, though ... ...

still using w2k?

... as a matter of fact. 2000, since last year in autumn ...

and before that, I had even less problems, thanks to 98ME ...

DocSommer wrote:...I don't even feel the need to upgrade to vista...

Vista is not an upgrade. Trust me on this one.

Being645 wrote:...and before that, I had even less problems, thanks to 98ME ...

Someone else who was still running ME! I'm astonished! (But I get to be, since I'm only just now getting XP...)

stufarq wrote: To be fair, everything grinds to a halt whwnever you visit MySpace. The real question is why you would want to.

No, I've never had that problem of Myspace grinding to a halt.
The real answer to your question is I don't know! Seemed like a good idea at the time but now considering closing that account actually.

MadameButterfly wrote:now i'm confused! the "but my will to live does"....does what? grind to an halt whenever you visit?

yep... it's a dreadful site

never had any issues with it on any computer (mac, pc or *nix) though, other the obvious

Quiff Boy wrote:

MadameButterfly wrote:now i'm confused! the "but my will to live does"....does what? grind to an halt whenever you visit?

yep... it's a dreadful site

never had any issues with it on any computer (mac, pc or *nix) though, other the obvious

must admit i'm not a fan of it myself anymore. oh well one day i might just kill that account.

right back to the mac vs pc..

7anthea7 wrote:

Being645 wrote:...and before that, I had even less problems, thanks to 98ME ...

Someone else who was still running ME! I'm astonished! (But I get to be, since I'm only just now getting XP...)

Don't laugh - I'm still running 3.1 on one of the machines. Never crashes, it's lovely

you're lovely too

James Blast wrote:you're lovely too

Oooh, Mr. Blast - you do know how to make a girl blush, and no mistake [giggle].